iPaddling through Fourth Grade-Encourage...Engage...Enlighten...Empower: Digital Storytelling with Toontastic - App Blog Review
What is better than our students watching videos? Of course, creating them and sharing their learning with others. This is what my fourth graders quickly discovered as they began creating videos focusing on content curriculum.
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Piggydb
Piggydb is a flexible and scalable knowledge building platform that supports a heuristic or bottom-up approach to discover new concepts or ideas based on your input. You can begin with using it as a flexible outliner, diary or notebook, and as your database grows, Piggydb helps you to shape or elaborate your own knowledge. Soon, it will become an indispensable knowledge base to your creative work. ;-)
Innovative Projects & Lessons
These technology integration projects and activities engender student creativity & empowerment. For more examples, visit our partner sites: Best of History Web Sites , The Center for Teaching History with Technology , and Teaching English with Technology . ETT Indicates a project from the EdTechTeacher Team. Books for Babies
How to Use Digital Storytelling in Your Classroom - Article
This how-to article accompanies the feature "Film School: Making Movies From Storyboard to Screen." Storytelling is a vital skill with seemingly unlimited applications. Done well, it can have a magical effect -- moving, enlightening, or entertaining audiences of any size. We tell stories to woo lovers, calm children, or reassure ourselves. Lawyers rely on the power of storytelling to vividly re-create crimes to juries, archaeologists conjure former civilizations, and teachers make abstract concepts real to their students.
MASH Game for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad - What's Your MASH Story? - iPhone Apps - Magnate Interactive
This is the original MASH app for iOS, a digital update to the timeless pen and paper classic game. If you have an iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, or Android device (and even a Mac or Windows PC), you can discover your future with MASH! (Some spell it M.A.S.H. but we spell it without the dots. We figure you know what those letters mean - Mansion Apartment Shack House!) Watch this two-minute video to find out what MASH is all about. After playing MASH (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, House) (iTunes link), you'll find out where you'll go to college, what you'll do for a living, and even how many kids you'll have.
IMARS: IBM Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System
IMARS is a desktop system for automatic indexing, classification, and searching of large collections of digital images and videos. IBM Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval System (IMARS) is a powerful system that can be used to automatically index, classify, and search large collections of digital images and videos. IMARS works by applying computer-based algorithms that analyze visual features of the images and videos, and subsequently allows them to be automatically organized and searched based on their visual content. In addition to search and browse features, IMARS also:
iPad Apps for English teaching and learning
In our prospective iPad project in our English and Media faculty we are currently trailing the best apps to use in the teaching of English and Media Studies. Here is a useful top ten list (with a few extras with honourable mentions!):
Fulbright-National Geographic Fellowship
This 2016-17 competition will launch shortly. Please check back soon for updates. The Fulbright-National Geographic Digital Storytelling Fellowship was launched in 2013 as a new component of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. It provides opportunities for U.S. citizens to participate in an academic year of overseas travel and digital storytelling in up to three countries on a globally significant theme.
